As
Dr Watson struggles to control his libido, Mr Sherlock Holmes hunts down a
German Spy. Helped or hindered by a faithful bloodhound, an indolent elder
sibling, and a mad Scotsman, the Great Detective races against time to
retrieve a Top Secret document that could bring down the British
Government...

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Mr
Sherlock Holmes

Dr
John H Watson

Ilsa
Reichmann

Kessler

Mycroft
Holmes

William
Gillette

Prime
Minister

McDougall

Seaman

Theme
music

Incidental
Music

Additional
music

Sound
Design

Executive
Producer

Executive
Producer for Dream Realm Enterprises

Jeff
Niles

Elie
Hirschman

Lisanne
Heyward

David
Ault

Jeff
Niles

Wayne
Heyward

Jim
Barbour

Jonithan
Patrick Russell

David
Ault

Alain
Morin

Alain
Morin

Andy
Flees

DRE

Jeff
Niles

Jonithan
Patrick Russell

Major
References: “His Last Bow”, “The Sign of the Four”, “The
Greek Interpreter”

Placement:This
Misadventure takes place in January and February 1895. In “the
Canon”, this places it between “Wisteria Lodge” and “The Three
Students”. Possibly.

Of
Singular Interest?

*Whatever
happened to Toby, Holmes's faithful bloodhound? The pooch has a
major role in "The Sign of the Four" (published 1890), and then
vanishes!

*How
many agents were working for the Diogenes Club? In fact, how far reaching
*is* the Diogenes Club?

*How
effective was the telegram service? Watson remarked of Holmes that
he "never wrote when he could telegraph", since the telegram
service was a remarkably efficient, and cheap, form of communication: a
charge of sixpence for the first twelve words, and a halfpenny for each
additional word. Prices increased for international telegrams,
though the delivery service remained the same.

*Professor
Challenger is Doyle's *other* famous literary creation.

*The
Prime Minister in 1895 was Lord Salisbury ( Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd
Marquess of Salisbury), who returned to power, under a hard line
Conservative government, in 1886. This was Salisbury's third crack
at the whip and his Foreign Affairs policies were somewhat controversial,
particularly his Naval Defence Act of 1889 which facilitated the
spending of an extra £20 million on the Royal Navy over the following
four years. This was the biggest ever expansion of the navy in peacetime:
ten new battleships, thirty-eight new cruisers, eighteen new torpedo boats
and four new fast gunboats.

*The
name “William Gillette” is an homage to, well, the noted actor William
Gillette, one of the most acclaimed stage Sherlocks.

*The
name “Norwood” is an homage to Elie Norwood, one of the greatest
screen Sherlocks.

*In
"His Last Bow" (published 1917, set in August 1914, on the eve
of the Great War) Sherlock Holmes is called out of retirement (in Sussex,
where he keeps bees) to help the British Government track down a German
spy named Von Bork. This is the last chronological appearance of Sherlock
Holmes in the Conan Doyle canon.

"His
Last Bow" forms the basis of "Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of
Terror", the first in the contemporaneous Universal Basil Rathbone/Nigel
Bruce films. And it was an inspiration for the utterly marvelous
Billy Wilder film, "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes", in
which Holmes is outwitted by an alluring female foreign agent. With
scenes set in Scotland, an appearance from Mycroft Holmes, and sequences
on a speeding train...